It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
AGNES MARTINI think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.
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I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect – completely removed in fact – even as we ourselves are.
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Once he sees this fact his feet are on the path. If you want to know the truth you will know it.
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The adventurous state of mind is a high house… The joy of adventure is unaccountable.
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My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They’re just horizontal lines.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern.
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When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.
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When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
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